Lotte Hass

Lotte Hass
Lotte Hass in 2004
Born
Charlotte Hildegard Baierl

(1928-11-06)6 November 1928
Vienna, Austria
Died14 January 2015(2015-01-14) (aged 86)
Vienna, Austria
Other namesFirst Lady of Diving[1]
Lottie Berl
Lotte Bayerl
Known forDiving
Underwater photography
Spouses
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(m. 1950; died 2013)​
Children1

Lotte Hass (6 November 1928 - 14 January 2015) was a pioneering Austrian diver, underwater photographer and model. She was nicknamed The First Lady of Diving.[2] She was the first woman to dive in the Red Sea,[3] the first woman to dive with autonomous diving equipment[4] and the first underwater model.[5] She was also the first person to take “in-water footage” of whale sharks and manta rays.[6] She was married to Hans Hass, the Austrian biologist and fellow diving pioneer.

  1. ^ Anthony Hayward. "Lotte Hass obituary". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  2. ^ Anthony Hayward. "Lotte Hass obituary". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  3. ^ Norton, Trevor (1999). Stars beneath the sea: the extraordinary lives of the pioneering divers. London, UK: Century. p. 206. ISBN 0-7126-8072-1.
  4. ^ Michael Jung. "Lotte Hass passed away". archives.cmas.org. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  5. ^ "2000 Lotte Hass". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
  6. ^ Jung, Michael (Summer 2008). "Lotte Hass: A Pictorial Biography" (PDF). The Journal of Diving History. 13 (3): 9. Retrieved 2023-09-09.